Fiorina threatens to get in McCain's antique cabinet Having turned HP into a model of consistency . . . Having morphed HP into a no-nonsense juggernaut . . . Having guided HP through the smoothest mega-merger in history . . . Er, okay. How about - Having rubbed out the Hewlett-Packard brand, the HP Way and HP's competitive position against IBM and Dell, Carly Fiorina would now …
"Carly Fiorina would now like to lend her insight gained about running large organizations and alienating as many people as possible to the White House."
Should read:
"Carly Fiorina would now like to lend her insight gained about ruining large organizations and alienating as many people as possible to the White House."
... McSame's success as President, should enough 'Murkans decide that they want yet another Old White Man in the White House.
But it could paradoxically help him get there in the first place. It's one of the many ironies of 'Murkan politics that your persona is much more important than your actual track record. And afaik, Fiorina has made good with the self-promotion gig.
She's on to a sure thing there. Plenty of publicity, and zero chance of actually being asked to serve by a Democrat administration, so no loss of face.
Unless the electorate really are so clueless as to return another Republican president.
Let's face it, if she's SecEd when the Cylons invade, she'll end up President, and no one wants that.
We don't even need to ask which side of the warrantless surveillance, FISA, retrospective immunity, Department of Fatherland Security debate Carly is on do we? Maybe this is her way of getting back at those damn pesky journos...
Seriously though, I think Carly 'helping' the republicans is exactly what the world needs, if she can bring her unique brand of internal demotivation and external image destruction to bear on the republicans and the evil that is the PNAC then poor Bill Gates is going to have his work cut out doing anything like as much good for the world...
She did set Hurd up for victory. Her performance was so poor, so execrable that not only could a competent successor succeed merely by showing up and not screwing up, if he had any ability at all, he'd look terrific by comparison. She lowered expectations to the point that anything that didn't look like bumbling incompetence would seem brilliant. Kind of like George W. Bush and whoever replaces him.
If That Woman manages to get to a position of authority then the US (and by extension the rest of us) will be treated in the same way as, from personal experience, she treated customers.
Only saving grace might be to keep her paws off screwing up business.
Hell's teeth, there must be some people of merit in the US to avoid having to scrape the barrel.
Oh well , with that lot elected to the oval office Zimbabwe/Wiemar Republic style hypersonic stagflation will rage out of control as McCook falls asleep at the wheel on the very first day after being inducted into the P.O.T.U.S office !
Undoubtedly quite a few mushroom clouds will start dotting the landscape soon after , what an interesting choice of an even greater number of pigs at the feeding trough indeed !
"Having rubbed out the Hewlett-Packard brand, the HP Way and HP's competitive position against IBM and Dell..."
Not only is her sterling record at HP on the line, we must not forget her running Lucent into the ground whilst engaging in *cough*dodgy accounting*cough* to hide the red ink.
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